Saturday, February 7, 2015

Irine Sukandar Wins Moscow 2015 Student Grandmaster's Cup

(Irine Juara Di Moscow, lihat di bawah)

With a round to spare and two points ahead her closest competitors, Irine Kharisma Sukandar of Indonesia wins Moscow Open Chess 2015 in style. Irine playing in group Gor female Student Grandmaster's group. In round 8, Irine facing Altan-Ulzii Enkhtuul from Mongolia with black. The game start in side line 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 b5, it soon went into nowdays popular rook endgame. Where with extra pawn, black can't pressed for full result and draw. Irine is then at 7/9 point. The other board of Alina Kashlinskaya vs Dinara Saduakassova was won by Dinara, which mean both only get 5/9 to secure Irine's convincing victory in this group. Irine will then meet Alina in penultimate round 9, which is no more influence Irine's position (UPDATED: Irine vs Alina 1/2-1/2, Round 9). This is perhaps the only and historical tournament first place win by Indonesian player in Moscow ever.

from round 8:
On Moscow Open Master Group A, Ernesto Inerkiev drew Tigran L. Petrosian on top board, with 7/9 point. Other players, Nepomniachtchi, Mamedov, Grachev and Artemiev, all splitting point too in round 8. This mean Inerkiev going for final round to decide the winner of this group by today, with Petrosian as his closest competitor with 6.5/9, but also a group of 14 player with 6 points in behind. See chess-result here. Other Indonesian players, GM Susanto Megaranto drew with black to Evgeny Alekseev, Susanto is undefeated after 8 rounds with 5.5/8. FM Muhammad Ali Lutfi came with tougher life with only 3.5/8, although noted he manage to win against GM Ivan Bukavshin and drew GM Boris Savchenko.